The rise of AI zombies

preface

This article is a collection of my thoughts on general-purpose LLMs. These I’ve come to realize cause more problems than they solve. At least in my eyes. I must emphasize that this article is geared specifically towards the general purpose LLMs marketed to the public as “AI”. I’m not an anti-AI fearmonger that thinks it’s going to take over the world (I’m more convinced that a way sadder and less exciting dystopian future is awaiting us). And I do recognize that there are some good use cases for AI, though these are rather limited and not nearly as great as advertised. Still, the little camera that detects whether the label is positioned correctly on your soda bottle has been doing a solid job for the past 20 years and will do so for the foreseeable future. Same technology in essence, but applied in a way where it makes sense.